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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Ask Dignity Enough Frank Generous Independent One Preserve Unhamper Wealth Work
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Future Life Live Over Present Worry Worth
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Human Lose Nobody Race Something Soon Speech Spoke Unless Very
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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Discover Meaningless Secret Unless Yourself
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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Artist Beauty Chaos Fashion Given Know Made Something Soul Strange Torment World
Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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